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He genuinely believes that he's above all of that now, or almost too successful to fail. If the last huge controversy hasn't put a dent into his cult of personality, not too many other things will
I dunno. I haven't watched another episode since I heard that girl's story about sexual harassment and toxic culture while working there.
Those allegations were proven to be false by an independent third-party investigation
No, it found no evidence one way or the other. It also found that LMG didn’t ignore things and followed their policies, which seems to imply something was being reported. They certainly presented it as absolving them while threatening a lawsuit, but it didn’t prove anything.
Same! I stopped watching any of his company’s content
I've unsubbed from all but the main channel a while before that, but this was the last drop in the ocean too. Even if half of the accusations were false, they way how their response was completely soulless, and full of dumb jokes, was unheard of
I’m team Suop. Linus is a cunt.
Yeah he seems like a real dick.
I blocked all their channels on YouTube after that too.
You are a drop in the bucket. LTT is at 16 million subs to GN's 2.5 million. That story was investigated by a third party with no wrong doing found. LTT isn't going anywhere.
I don't care.
Ok, thanks for letting me know?
I stopped long before then because the content had turned into garbage. There's too many tech content creators out there to watch his company's click bait crap.
If I hadn't already, I would have stopped then though.
Never heard this do you have a link or something?
I had read Madison Reeve's post somewhere but it was in Twitter I think. I can't access it anymore without an account it seems. So here's a couple it articles.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/linus-tech-tips-youtube-controversy-1.6940087
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2024/05/23/youtube-channel-linus-tech-tips-says-sexual-harassment-allegations-not-substantiated-after-investigation/
Thanks I actually started searching myself too and found this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html
Edit I also found this
https://www.dexerto.com/tech/linus-tech-tips-reveals-allegations-ex-employee-were-false-following-investigation-2737147/
Quote from Madison: I purposefully cut my leg open so badly I would have to go to the ER to get it stapled back together. It was genuinely the only way in my mind to take a day off without being harassed for a reason why.
I think I would leave a crappy job way earlier than even considering commiting self harm.
Thanks for providing these links.
I just checked out r/pcmasterrace and Linus might be right then. Most people over there seem to be parroting Linus excuses and down voting anyone who says otherwise.